More Thoughts on Workshopping

Expounding on Chris Offutt's theme, the poet Richard Howard has the following comment on writer's workshops in the new issue of Poets & Writers:

Young poets have been deluded into thinking that if everybody sits around and talks about a text, then it's a kind of democratic procedure and everybody has a voice. The muse is not an equal-opportunity employer. It doesn't work that way.

Remember, kids, it's your work, and not that of the snarky grad-school lifer over in the corner.